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"A bleak Christmas looms for many": More than 2,000 workers employed by Manchester Airport and outside firms at risk
herePeople would have to pay for their own tests to avoid impacting NHS capacity.MAG CEO Charlie Cornish, along with easyjet, Heathrow and Virgin Atlantic, issued a joint response describing the move as 'a step in the right direction' - but said such a scheme needed to be implemented by early November.They added: "We encourage the Government to take a lead in moving to pre-departure testing, as well as the approval of new testing technologies, as soon as possible. Without a rapid move to testing, the UK will fall even further behind our competitors and the economic recovery will fail to get off the ground."It follows months of appeals from the aviation sector for more financial support from the government.
